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Group Speed Dial for Chrome Changelog

What's new in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 24.6

Feb 11, 2024
  • Added new "Green" and "Neon" theme (using green/red shadow)
  • Hidden locked groups are now correctly hidden from search
  • Reorganized options page for easier theme / visual setup
  • Huge refactoring and upgrade of dials shadows style, now it supports custom color and intensity
  • Shadows now works also with "transparent title" style
  • - "split dials" have now smaller gaps (half, compared to normal dials gap)
  • Added "unlimitedStorage" permission for Chromium browsers to prevent data loss when user runs out of free space on system drive (Chrome can delete IndexedDB data, so all thumbnails!)
  • Fixed:
  • Finally fixed group dial thumbnails size (the height was wrongly computed and bottom part was not fully visible)
  • Fixed missing group icons in the search
  • Fixed "Alt + Enter" in Search locating wrong dial when focus is in multi-dial
  • Fixed some options not live-previewing changes
  • Fixed units in sliders
  • Fixed export error when missing permission
  • Fixed setting custom monitor resolution in the new Options page
  • Fixing favicon download for multi-dials (hopefully)
  • Fixed blinking cloud icon when tab opens (hopefully, it's hard to test)

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 23.0 (Oct 28, 2023)

  • Added more tags :)
  • Default "Auto-reload" is now "Reload every", not "Daily at"
  • You can now open "Edit group" with "Alt + R" key
  • In the "Edit dial" you can now use "F2" to rename dial (focus "Dial title" field)
  • - "pause icon" in the Productivity mode is finally properly centered :)
  • Adding page to dials using "fast insert" mode in context menu now shows "Success" box (as a feedback) AND will now look for duplicates (and if one is found, dials page will open and show it to you)
  • Added help bubble text for the "Fixed layouts"
  • Added check for "<all_urls>" permission (in the future, users may be able to remove it which will break a lot of features)
  • Fixed "Add this page to dials" duplicate red marker color
  • Fixed tag icon placement when using centered dial title
  • Fixed inputs focus when choosing between dial types in the Edit dial window
  • Fixed broken alarm highlight (in some cases)
  • Fixed ESC key not working in Visual tab
  • Improved thumbnails generator (more resilient)
  • More logs for Auto-reload to help diagnose issues
  • Refactored background and group / dials styling code (hopefully I didn't break anything :))
  • Removed Safari from the code and build script (bye Safari, you won't be missed: https://ko-fi.com/post/Im-done-developing-Safari-extensions-D1D3MYJPL)
  • WIP - group gestures / transitions feature was developed, but it doesn't feels good so it's not available just yet

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 21.8 (Sep 27, 2022)

  • "Recently closed" dial:
  • You can now create special dial that shows "Recently closed tabs / windows" and allows you to restore them
  • Shows pages and windows from your "Session history" as a Multi-dial
  • Left click to restore it
  • Middle click to open it in new tab
  • This feature requires new permission (only in Firefox)
  • "Top sites" dial:
  • Shows your "Top sites" inside a dial! (you may remember I've added only recently special group "Top sites" that shows your top sites in a separate group)
  • Shows all your top sites (managed by browser) as a Multi-dial
  • This feature requires optional permission
  • Other improvements:
  • Firefox 106+ will now use current window to generate thumbnails (this may improve quality)
  • Speedup for thumbnails generation, now the image is written directly to DB
  • Further optimized CSS and favicon handling

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 20.0 (Jun 16, 2022)

  • Removed unused legacy base64 images from the IndexedDB, this should fix insane Chromium memory leak on startup
  • Fixing broken thumbnails reload in Chrome 102
  • Added buttons for changing the dynamic dial size
  • Fixed blank thumbnail detection
  • Chrome will no longer close reloading window (less focus stealing when reloading many pages), it will also do 6 pages at a time (32bit devices will do 2)
  • Fixed "Default" reload option - this global option will now work for Auto-reload and for "Refresh all dials" feature
  • Fixed rare error message on browser start (when dials page loads before background script)
  • Refactored "Bing image of the day" module into MV3 compatible
  • Refactoring code injection into MV3 compatible
  • Refactored error logger module into MV3 compatible
  • Refactored favicons downloader into MV3 compatible version
  • Refactored canvas operations to MV3 compatible using OffscreenCanvas
  • Removed localStorage usage in the background script
  • Replacing window with self for better service worker compatibility
  • Added RxJS library for better coding :)
  • Refactored contextMenus into more compatible version
  • Updated libs

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 17.1 (Dec 12, 2021)

  • 17.1 version:
  • Introducing "Dynamic layout"! (popular in many similar addons)
  • use Ctrl / Alt / Shift / Meta to cancel dynamic drag and drop in dynamic layouts groups
  • enabled Webp image format for Chrome (Firefox doesn't support encoding yet...)
  • free version now allows 2 search dials in a single dial (to avoid some confusion...)
  • increased quality for group-dials thumbnails
  • removed "Copy homepage link" from Options page (not needed anymore, addon overrides Homepage automatically)
  • visual upgrade in Options page / Groups
  • reduced thumbnails sync interval to 1 hour (down from 4)
  • added two big icon/logos databases (not used yet, but should come in the next release)
  • right click on empty space will now show some relevant context menu
  • group scrolling is now disabled if Right mouse button is pressed (to prevent collision with desktop mouse-gestures apps)
  • group edit can be now saved with Enter
  • squared menu icon
  • upgraded libs
  • new translations (thank you translators!)
  • refactored a huge chunk of styling code
  • Fixed:
  • fixed broken favicons for dials with "URL thumbnail"
  • fixed favicon fail-safe download
  • fixed weird bug with thumbnails not being generated (being stuck)
  • fixed settings reload in opened-not-focused tabs
  • fixed "advanced drop" icon glitch when drag-and-drop

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 16.8 (Nov 18, 2021)

  • Resize dial feature now supports 1x3 and 1x4 splits!
  • Added new token to the server requests
  • Preparation for a new server

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 16.6 (Sep 21, 2021)

  • Hotfix release:
  • Removed experimental audio from thumbnails generating tab
  • Fixing productivity mode when PC sleeps during whole un-productive time
  • Custom search dial will now generate proper default name if you don't specify any
  • Fixed advanced drop (inserting dials between dials)

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 16.4 (Aug 14, 2021)

  • Fixed broken search (it had irrelevant results).

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 16.1 (Aug 4, 2021)

  • Fixed broken "Always open in New tab" option
  • Fixed missing "Resume" button for productivity mode
  • Fixed save icons in the Options page (hotfix)
  • Added title for the multi-page rows with full name and full URL
  • Added scrollbar hiding in Group-dial thumbnails for Text dials / Multi-page dials / Search dials

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 15.7 (May 7, 2021)

  • Changed font family in Safari and Linux to improve readability, now we will use: system-ui (Safari), Verdana (Windows), sans-serif (Linux)
  • Reorganized main menu - less clutter, more Help options
  • Pro version (and above) will not show "Pro" label in the top bar to save space
  • Added fail-safe for auto-reload for the cases when reload gets stuck
  • Added support for new color of Firefox error page
  • Fixed fallback thumbnail generation not clearing cache with old thumbnails
  • Fixed complex issue with uploading URL thumbnail to a public library
  • Fixed search to react on check-boxes instantly
  • Fixed the bug with context menu being closed when you miss-click item
  • Fixed closing context menu when miss-click on non item in the menu
  • Fixed closing context menu when accidentally leaving the screen near menu (like when you try to remove dial from the bottom row)
  • Translations (thank you all!)

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 15.6 (Apr 27, 2021)

  • Active group has now blue line on top
  • Shadows are now reduced and gear icon is smaller
  • Updated dial floating labels to have a zoom effect and better colors (it will be replaced with icons in the future)
  • Refactored CSS rules to simple, faster and more reliable (this may break some custom CSS styles)

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 15.2 (Sep 12, 2020)

  • Rebuild of synchronization area - no there is only a simple cloud icon that will show more on hover (this is cleaner design and it takes much less space!)
  • Fixed wrong zoom reset during thumbnail generation
  • Fixed context menu / Move dial / Move to group - now the list is scrollable if it won't fit the screen
  • Fixed search highlight to work with small dials
  • Removed legacy options for PNG / JPEG plus compression for thumbnails (these were not really applied anymore for some time...)
  • Fixed many visual issues in Cloud dials page
  • Refactored default options setup - now it's handled on one place and it works on Web

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 14.4 (Jan 17, 2020)

  • Multiple Search engines in a Search Dial can be now reordered
  • Improved Search providers picker with icons and links
  • Search Dial now supports custom background color
  • Text Dial now supports custom background color
  • Improved database error reporting
  • Reloading multiple dials now supports more reload methods
  • Auto-reload now supports new more stable background reload method
  • Fixed broken search with Ctrl + Shift + F on dials page
  • Fixed loosing scrolling position when adding new page to your dials
  • Fixed synchronization issues when using new features on old PC
  • Fixed synchronization of Custom Search providers icons
  • Fixed Chrome thumbnails generation on 4K screens (or other high DPI)
  • Fixed new background reload with group dial pages

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 14.3 (Jan 17, 2020)

  • Added new type of dial - Search Dial! You can also add custom search engines!
  • Enabled copy homepage link in all browsers again
  • Fixed gradient solid type issue in Options page
  • Fixed broken context menu on broken dials (I'm still not sure how dials can get broken)
  • Auto-reload won't access dials anymore if disabled
  • Better error logging for thumbnails generation (database, canvas, screenshots)

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 14.2 (Jan 17, 2020)

  • Added Archive feature! You can now move your old groups into the Archive. This feature is for Pro users (supporters) only.
  • Added error logger for all database operations to help track bugs
  • Manual reloading will now always create new window to fix some page that requires to be visible
  • Reloading will now also disable animations
  • Refactored (simplified) styling of dial names and group list
  • Fixed Public Images for users without cloud account
  • Fixed Public Images for special protocols
  • Fixed unexpected deleting of text dials when resizing group!
  • Fixed super old bug with bad reloading if user adds dials while other is reloaded
  • Fixed bad validation of group dials when contains smaller dials
  • Fixed button to refresh missing thumbnails (it was refreshing all thumbnails)

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 14.1 (Jan 17, 2020)

  • Added option to Return back / Stay on the dials page / Ask user what to do, after adding page to dials
  • Better error handling and reporting for thumbnails creation
  • Fixed Public Library of thumbnails (some random issues...)
  • Fixed Android issues with Pop-up and thumbnails and adding multiple pages
  • Fixed Android Options page scrolling
  • Improved redirect from new tab page
  • Fixed favicons for special protocols

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 14.0 (Oct 28, 2019)

  • whole addon is now written in TypeScript! This will allow me to implement new features much faster and with less bugs!
  • huge upgrade of thumbnails generation (including auto-reload) feature:
  • thumbnails are now generated much faster
  • thumbnails should now contain fully loaded pages
  • thumbnails won't have scrollbars anymore
  • added new Refresh image in background function that works for every page
  • added empty thumbnail detection and fallback to new stable thumbnail generation
  • thumbnails can be now bigger than your screen! This will help users with High DPI monitors!
  • added proper offline detection that should stop auto-reload when you are offline (works only if you have cloud account)
  • Text Dial - the new type of dial for your todo :), you can also setup on-click copy to clipboard!
  • added "Sort by" feature - currently it has to be executed manually, auto-sort will come later
  • added "Reload all dials with auto-reload enabled" option in "Refresh images" window
  • added "Add this link to dial" to context menu
  • dials search is now much faster and automatic as you type
  • added option to scroll thumbnails in dials
  • added option to change font-size of dial names (finally!)
  • after adding current page to dial you can stay on the dials page (it will ask you what to do)
  • added support for "ext+container" protocol
  • auto-reload won't use Private windows anymore
  • Bing image of the day now supports - full image view, dials auto-hide, Bing quiz for the image
  • added Czech translations! BIG THANKS to Sandra!
  • added Greek translations! BIG THANKS to Lefteris!
  • fixed search on scrollable groups (plus it will scroll to found dial)
  • fixed Search in pop-up
  • fixed bugs in Crop / Scale controls
  • Firefox ESR 68 is now required for addon to work
  • Pro features are BACK! All existing functionality will work for all for free, only some of the new features will be available to supporters. For more info (about how I got poor), see my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/fastaddons
  • Pro features:
  • Dial resize - you can now split single dial into 2x2 / 3x3 / 4x4 dials!
  • Add all opened tabs in current window to dials
  • more Pro features will be coming in near future (archive for dials, new styling options for groups, auto-reload for whole group and much more)

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 13.5 (Jun 3, 2019)

  • Huge internal refactoring to ES6 modules, I really hope I didn't break anything
  • Fixed 1px line below thumbnails issue
  • Fixed multiple auto-reload issues (with too high images, too slow start time, fail-safe closing, )
  • Fixed multiple synchronization issues
  • Fixed error logger

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 13.3 (May 7, 2019)

  • Fixed synchronization issues when resolving conflicts
  • Fixed for hotfix for data correction related to auto-reload
  • Fixed context menu sub-menu below screen
  • You can now buy me a coffee :D, THANK YOU!

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 13.2 (May 2, 2019)

  • Fixed data inconsistency caused by deleted dials with auto-reload (this was causing never ending reloading hidden tab)
  • Fixed background errors handling
  • Reloading tab is not a bit more robust when stuff breaks

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 13.0 (Apr 30, 2019)

  • Full Android version is here!!!
  • Changing number of Rows / Columns has now live preview
  • Enjoy new colorful icons and improved context menus!
  • Fixed multiple layout issues related to small screens
  • Fixed thumbnails size on High DPI screens in some browsers
  • Fixed many small issues - thank you for reporting bugs!

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 12.6 (Mar 14, 2019)

  • Greatly increased number of Rows / Columns you can have in a single page - up to 100 columns / 500 rows (but try NOT TO USE IT, your browser may freeze)
  • Options page is now always opened in a separate tab

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 12.3 (Jan 12, 2019)

  • Added support for Blank thumbnails (or solid color thumbnails)
  • Integrated search (Ctrl + Shift + F) now takes focus from address-bar (when empty)
  • Fixed favicons download from Google
  • Fixed group thumbnails generation

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 11.1 (Nov 11, 2018)

  • Fixed black flash when loading dials page and using white theme
  • Added new switch in Options page to open dials page when Firefox starts
  • Improved auto-fix of homepage issues due to Firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490260
  • Added better errors handling when loading thumbnails

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 10.9 (Oct 30, 2018)

  • Hotfix for import backup with thumbnails!

New in Group Speed Dial for Chrome 10.5 (Sep 13, 2018)

  • Added Traditional Chinese translations! (big thanks to Jeff!)
  • Fixed context menu sub-menus not fitting right
  • Improved algorithm for picking the best window for reloading - now wider windows are preferred more and small should be skipped
  • Added fail-safe for auto-reload when users window is too small -> now if we cannot fit a single page into reloading tab, we move the tab to the new window and then close it afterwards
  • Added option to show only Root groups - those that doesn't have group-dial in another group (this can help reduce number of groups in top bar but still having access to all your groups)
  • Fixed broken favicons in Firefox 64 Nightly